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5/9/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: System doesn't matter, as narrated by E. Gary Gygax
(from a recent interview at http://www.cdmag.com/Home/home.html?article=/articles/032/127/010507-f2.html) Interviewer: There are quite a few "freeware" role-playing games on the Internet these days... EGG: Right. And they're worth every penny you pay…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Dav, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, Jason L Blair, greyorm.

5/9/2001 poppocabba: use of blindfolds/sound in rpgs
I am interested if anyone has ever used blind folds in their games, and also of hearing about any experiences with gaming foley artistry. I am really out to create…
In Actual Play
Participants: poppocabba, DonQuixote, Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, Ben Morgan, Mytholder.

5/9/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Centerfolds
Something that I'd really like to see (on this site or on individuals' sites) is a kind of "gamer profile" that would shed light on a person's style, turn-ons and…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Ron Edwards, Clinton R. Nixon, Blake Hutchins, George Pletz, Zak Arntson, Mytholder, hardcoremoose, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, GreatWolf, Clay, poppocabba, DonQuixote, gizem, unodiablo, james_west, Supplanter, Ferry Bazelmans, John Wick, ephealy, Gordon C. Landis, Matt Gwinn, gentrification, Nathan, Dav, Ian Freeman, archangel_2, Jamie Thomas Durbin.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Fengshui: Simulationist?
Okay, I understand why it could be viewed as simulationist (and may be it is), as it puts all its mechanics into simulating an action movie world. What concerns me…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards, Mytholder, George Pletz, Clinton R. Nixon, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: I really like Sorcerer but...
...I never know what to actually do with it? I know this is a bit of a 'basic' question for these boards, and it's a bit of an embarrassing one…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, JSDiamond, james_west, greyorm, joshua neff, Jason L Blair, Clay, Paul Czege.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Unable to Query DB
I seem to be getting an 'Unable to Query DB' error message a lot? I assume this is an ongoing thing and it's not just me :smile: I get three…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2001 Ian O'Rourke: The New Refuge
I return to The Forge after thinking it had died, and suddenly I find this whole forum thing going on. Very good. I like it. It's an alternative to GO…
In Adept Press
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Ron Edwards.

5/8/2001 james_west: An exercise in vanity ? (Mildly communist ...)
Having read over this forum, one thing I'm not clear on is the -REASON- for charging for your .pdf As Ron Edwards is quick to point out, the amount of…
In Publishing
Participants: james_west, Dav, Ron Edwards, Jason L Blair, Clinton R. Nixon, Mytholder, He who is Q, Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege.

5/8/2001 hardcoremoose: NIGHTWATCH/InSpectres playtest
Something amazing happened tonight. I got my grizzled gaming buddies together, as per usual on Monday nights. They were expecting the next installment in their D&D campaign. No doubt they…
In Actual Play
Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/8/2001 Dav: Minimalism vs. Half-booty
A brief open question: Sorcerer, as well as other games, have proven that a core concept as well as good, efficient mechanics can present a saleable item. No setting. Or…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Dav, james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/7/2001 Jason L Blair: PDF Question
Unlike other apps I'm familiar with, Acrobat doesn't seem to care much about resolution. In fact, the only mention of it I see is for output (printer) resolution. So my…
In Publishing
Participants: Jason L Blair, Ron Edwards, Dav, Paul Czege, Matt Gwinn, Clay.

5/7/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: sdrawkcab gniyalp
I was thinking (always a dangerous prospect). Watching Sopranos tonight I was thinking of how things turn out in the show...how these twists and turns are do-able in an RPG,…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, Paul Czege, Dav.

5/6/2001 JSDiamond: The Ultimate Binding
I was just thinking about this last night. The idea came to me from an idea I have for a drawing inspired by Sorcerer. Binding a demon is dangerous, -this…
In Adept Press
Participants: JSDiamond, Ron Edwards, Clay.

5/6/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: I ran Elfs last night Ice & Fire spoilers
It was...interesting. :smile: The players were really into it (although a bit hesitant to use authorial or director stance). Once they got over their slight fear of "making stuff up,"…
In Adept Press
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2001 poppocabba: defining player types
here is the start of another article I was thinking that the traditional descriptions of rpg players are not unified enough, and given the contrasts in my current ground I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: poppocabba, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Happy-Lucky Chinese Restaurant Game
This is an idea I came up with a few weeks ago. It's a bit like Hogshead's "Baron Munchausen" game, except you play it in a Chinese restaurant and the…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

5/5/2001 james_west: Included pictures ?
Some forums like this have a way that This is a test to see if inline images will work in this forum system.
In Site Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/4/2001 Paul Czege: Theatrix in action
This is going to be partly a paste of something I wrote on G.O. about the first session of the awesome superhero game, using Theatrix rules, that one of the…
In Actual Play
Participants: Paul Czege, Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards, greyorm, james_west, GreatWolf, Clay, Pyske, Supplanter.

5/4/2001 Ron Edwards: Orkworld in action
Oh boy! Well, I ran our first run of Orkworld last night. Another run or so, and I can do a review. The plan is four or five sessions for…
In Actual Play
Participants: Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, Dav.

5/4/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Do what thou wilt
Ron mentioned he'd like a forum like this, and I think it's a good idea. Do whatever thy ass wanteth, but here's some great examples of what you might discuss:…
In Actual Play
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Jason L Blair.

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5/9/2001 Logan: Incorrect Assumptions
Some of our assumptions about the G/S/D and also G/N/S may be incorrect. For instance, Ron and I have thought that John Kim's 3-fold debate didn't go anywhere. Not true.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Logan, james_west, Ron Edwards, greyorm.

5/10/2001 james_west: theoretical game spaces (17k in images)
I'd not heard of the narrativist/gamist/simulationist axes before looking over this website a few days ago. However, I've looked over not only the material here but related material on other…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Ron Edwards.

5/10/2001 greyorm: New posts indicators
I've been having problems for the last three days with the new posts indicators. Threads I have fully read are showing up with "new posts since last visit" even though…
In Site Discussion
Participants: greyorm, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/10/2001 Clinton R. Nixon: Psychological simulationism
In the Feng Shui thread, it was asked if any thought had been given to psychological simulationism in RPGs. My three examples to rip apart would be: The White Wolf…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Clinton R. Nixon, Ron Edwards, Jared A. Sorensen.

5/10/2001 Gordon C. Landis: "Story" thoughts
Great stuff here, everyone. I'm never sure I actually understand G/N/S, nor if it is even really a "good" analysis of RPGs in general, but it (and the discussions on…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Gordon C. Landis, james_west, Ron Edwards, joshua neff.

5/11/2001 james_west: friendlier G/N/S definitions
I've been thinking about a less confrontational set of G/N/S definitions: see what you think. Put this way, I think most people would call themselves Gamist ... note that by…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: james_west, Logan, Jared A. Sorensen, Gordon C. Landis, Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, greyorm, joshua neff, Paul Czege, GreatWolf, Mike Holmes.

5/12/2001 Zak Arntson: Web Publishing Model
I've been giving serious thought to doing online RPG publishing. Inspired by Adept Press and Memento-Mori, here's my current plan. I was wondering what y'all thought of it, especially those…
In Publishing
Participants: Zak Arntson, Ron Edwards, Dav, JSDiamond, Clay.

5/12/2001 Ian O'Rourke: Player Behaviour Dangers
I tend to agree with Ron (and whoever else), as I think GNS can be used to classify player behaviour, most people fall into one category in the main. I…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: Ian O'Rourke, Logan, Ron Edwards, Zak Arntson, hardcoremoose, joshua neff, james_west, Gordon C. Landis.

5/12/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Playtesting Forum
Could be get a Playtesting forum for people to use? It'd be especially nice if individual threads could be coded to only allow certain members to read them (open vs.…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Ron Edwards.

5/12/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Convention bastards.
Well, due to my lateness in submitting my game, I'll be running Elfs at KublaCon on a Sunday morning. Feh. In the conversations between the con RPG organizer (a nice…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Mytholder, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, JSDiamond, Clinton R. Nixon, poppocabba, hardcoremoose, Dav, Blake Hutchins, james_west.

5/13/2001 greyorm: Some more definition insanity
In a recent message here, Ron, it seemed you were saying that the narrative game has far-reaching plots set-up in advance ala Tolkien and the simulationist game is more like…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: greyorm, Ron Edwards, james_west.

5/13/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Jeff Noon -- Cobralingus
Not really sure where to put this...but hell, I know Josh Neff will be interested, at the very least! http://www.codexbooks.co.uk/book.html Really interesting.
In Indie Game Design
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, joshua neff, DonQuixote.

5/13/2001 archangel_2: Scoobie Doo InSpectre
Well, I'm sure this has either already been thought up, or is too ignorant a suggestion to have brought up thus far, but here goes none-the-less. *s* I was checking…
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: archangel_2, Jared A. Sorensen, hardcoremoose, Jason L Blair.

5/14/2001 JSDiamond: Endless Dance
Ron Edwards mentioned a game called "Hero" from a long time ago and that got me to thinking about a game I 'designed' a long time ago but never finished.…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: JSDiamond.

5/14/2001 hardcoremoose: System utilizing Director's Stance?!
I posted this over at RPGnet, but it really deserves to be here where the great minds can mull it over. There's a game spinning in my head for which…
In Indie Game Design
Participants: hardcoremoose, Ron Edwards, JSDiamond, Jared A. Sorensen, Clay, Doc Midnight.

5/14/2001 JSDiamond: Role-playing *is* alive and strong
I'm going to tell you something, on occasion I feel like I'm wasting my time writing and drawing. A "pearls before swine" epiphany emerges every now and again. You know…
In Actual Play
Participants: JSDiamond, Jared A. Sorensen, GreatWolf, Ron Edwards, joshua neff, Clay.

5/15/2001 Jared A. Sorensen: Non-violent, combat-heavy D&D (?)
It's on the "memento monte" (hah!) d20 page. It's called Snowball Fight. Bundle up!
In Memento-Mori Theatricks
Participants: Jared A. Sorensen, Paul Czege, Jason L Blair.

5/15/2001 Paul Czege: I want my post back :(
Hey Clinton, Raven wrote this in a thread outside of "Site Discussion": I just wrote a particularly lengthy post on the issue and it was destroyed because it…
In Site Discussion
Participants: Paul Czege, Clinton R. Nixon.

5/15/2001 GreatWolf: Diverse Lunacy
Well, events have proceeded far enough that I can leak a little more information on Alyria. More details will be found in the next installment of Dreaming Out Loud (including…
In Dark Omen Games
Participants: GreatWolf, Jared A. Sorensen, Mike Holmes, Valamir, Gordon C. Landis.

5/15/2001 joshua neff: playing in the band
so, my group just finished up playing a short d20 "star wars" story...overall it went well, but i had a few problems w/ the way my friend ran it (which…
In Actual Play
Participants: joshua neff, Ron Edwards, Dav, james_west.

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